• Feminine Guardian of the Green Core. "Jane Austen and the Theatre" by Penny Gay, "Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon" by Clara Tuite and "Recreating Jane Austen" by John Wiltshire. [review] 

  Wilkes, Joanne (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  These three new books, all by Australian academics, offer notable contributions to Austen studies. Penny Gay's "Jane Austen and the Theatre" highlights Austen's strong liking for theatrical performances, and discusses how ...

• Making Oz Lit. "The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination" by Richard Nile. [review] 

  Dixon, Robert (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  Reviewers of the last batch of Australian literary histories rightly asked in what sense such works can be considered 'historical'. After reading the second Oxford history, David Carter even wondered if literary critics ...

• The Definition of Place. [poem] 

  Bishop, Judith (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

• Seductive Amnesia. "Anything the Landlord Touches" by Emma Lew. [review] 

  Beveridge, Judith (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  Emma Lew's poetic covenant is with a poetics that has as its chief enterprise the music of diction, syntax and structure, a poetry whose message is often elusive, whose tones and pitches are constantly relocating and ...

• Your Feet / Love Poem. [poem] 

  Middleton, Kate (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

• The First Chance Was A Last Chance. [poem] 

  Adamson, Robert (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

• Bestsellers / Subscription. 

  Unknown author (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  This item includes the January 2003 Bestsellers, the subscription information from this issue, and the 2002 Bestsellers.

• Index for 2002: Nos 238-247. 

  Unknown author (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  This item is an index to all reviews published in Australian Book Review during 2002.

• Letter from Istanbul. 

  Hergenhan, Laurie (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  This article is a journal account of Hergenhan's trip to Istabul to meet the guidebook writer John Freely, as well as a reflection on Freely's work.

• Tara's Theme. "Digital Hemlock: Internet Education and the Poisoning of Teaching" by Tara Brabazon. [review] 

  Snyder, Ilana (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  Demonisers of technology have at least two things in common: they believe that computers are bad for us, and they often come up with catchy book titles. In the last chapter, Brabazon anticipates criticism. She tells us ...

• Transnational Italians. "Visits Home: Migration Experiences Between Italy and Australia" by Loretta Baldassar and "In Search of Kings: What Became of the Passengers of the 'Re D'Italia'" by Tony de Bolfo. [review] 

  Pesman, Ros (Australian Book Review, 2003-01)

  Melbourne journalist Tony de Bolfo's original interest in the Re d'Italia was in recovering the history of his grandfather Silvio de Bolfo, who, together with two of his brothers, was among the migrants on the ship. In ...

• A Passionate Life. "Days Never Done: The Life and Work of Hesba Fay Brinsmead" by Michael Pollak and Margaret MacNabb. [review] 

  Robson Kett, Margaret (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  Michael Pollak and Margaret MacNabb have produced a well-researched and comprehensive guide to Hesba Fay ('Pixie') Hungerford Brinsmead's life so far, with extensive cooperation from Brinsmead, and from her family and ...

• Kicking Against the Pricks. "The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction" by Justine Larbalestier. [review] 

  Sussex, Lucy (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  "The Battle of the Sexes" is a book about a literary genre's development, that genre having several unique features. Once literary criticism of SF was defensive, justifying its existence; now presses such as Wesleyan issue ...

• Night for Day in the Antipodes. "Australian Passport: English-Greek Edition" by S.S. Charkianakis. [review] 

  Gauntlett, Stathis (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  It is perhaps ironic that, at a time when the Church and government of Greece are locked in battle over retention of the statement of religious affiliation on identity cards, the Greek Orthodox Primate of Australia, S.S. ...

• Men Gotta Tell Their Stories. "Near-Life Experience" by Mark Mahemoff and "Music and Women's Bodies" by Craig Powell. [review] 

  Dennis, Oliver (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  In one of the characteristically taut poems that make up Mark Mahemoff's second collection, "Near-life Experience", the speaker describes the bleak reality of imminent separation, and wonders: 'How to expose / the workings ...

• Missing Pay Off. "The Gentleman's Garden" by Catherine Jinks. [review] 

  Williams, Michael (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  If "The Gentleman's Garden" is anything to go by, Catherine Jinks is well acquainted with the tricks and traditions of romance novels. At first glance, all the necessary elements are present. Dorothea Brande is a model of ...

• In Retrospect. "Black Mirror" by Gail Jones. [review] 

  Armstrong, Judith (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  This is an alluring example of the retrospective novel, one that uses the device of a biographer's interviews with her subject to prod the reconstruction of memories. It is retrospective not simply because it ranges over ...

• Wide World of Clarke. "The Tournament" by John Clarke. [review] 

  Matthews, Brian Ernest (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  In the first few pages of this extraordinary and daring piece of work, John Clarke effortlessly maps out the ground rules simply by taking the whole thing as read. There is no anxiety to explain massive anachronisms, ...

• Growing Pains. "Asia-Pacific Constitutional Systems" by Graham Hassall and Cheryl Saunders. [review] 

  Blackshield, Tony (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  A comprehensive comparative survey of the post-colonial constitutions established in Asia and the Pacific after World War II, and their subsequent evolution, is an ambitious undertaking, and perhaps an anomalous one, since ...

• Three Cheers for Dickey. "Finding Common Interest: The Story of Dick Dusseldorp and Lend Lease" by Lindie Clark. [review] 

  Haigh, Gideon (Australian Book Review, 2003-02)

  Those concerned with corporate life have a good deal to gain from "Finding a Common Interest". Dusseldorp is a rich and provocative subject, Clark an attentive and assiduous student. 'Corporate social responsibility', a ...

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